Public Eye

I'd driven by the Streamline Moderne Coca-Cola bottling plant on South Central Avenue (from 1937 by architect Robert V. Derrah) in downtown L.A. many times -- always doing a double-take. It's an ocean liner on the city streets. Today I got to go inside to speak on a panel on the state of the SoCal economy. Danged if I didn't take my camera in, not expecting anything visual in there -- but the execs' offices are like captains' quarters; you have to step over a bulkhead to get in. Asked someone else to take a picture of that coolness and will post when I get it ...